During last year’s presidential campaign, then-presidential candidate John McCain was roundly criticized for his lack of technological prowess. As you can see from this story, he even professed in an interview that he was technologically “illiterate” — and even admitted that he didn’t use email or a Blackberry. But that was then. Now, McCain is [...]
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Nobel Prize for Twitter? Nah – Give it to the Brave Citizen Journalists
We’ve written here extensively about the power of new online tools — such as Twitter — to allow individuals and organizations quickly and effectively collect and disseminate content … and how these tools have been used from everything from breaking important global news to empowering citizen journalists in Iran. Now, the Christian Science Monitor editorial [...]
Tweeting the #iranelection … by the numbers
We’ve posted here before (here and here) about the use of Twitter to share information and news about the recent protests over the fraudulent Iranian elections. Thanks to Mashable, we’ve learned that the Web Ecology Project has published a detailed analysis of The Iranian Election on Twitter — and the findings are pretty remarkable: From [...]
The Empire Strikes Back
Scooped by “ordinary citizens” (once again), and called to task for largely ignoring one of the biggest global news stories of the year — “old media” is fighting back. The big story of the last ten days has been the important role that online tools, such as Twitter, FriendFeed and YouTube, have been playing in [...]
The New Journalism
jour·nal·ism: the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media. The “Old Journalism” is dead. And not just because traditional news organizations have lost their ability to make a profit. To be sure, there are a number of reasons for it — but a major one is traditional media’s large scale failure to [...]